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To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:22 PM
Subject: [iris-photos] broken color
reblooming ugly seedling with hafts
This one opened today and is still
expanding. been working for wide, ruffled reblooming BCs. I guess
this qualifies, now to get something that is pretty or at least something that
doesn't cause revulsion. guess this one would fit the "repell"
category!
Mike - recovering from a hard drive/motherboard
meltdown.
I've always just called them "haft markings" or
"haft marks...along the beard" or some such.
Some irises are enhanced by them. Others
repell. It just depends on the neatness and the biases of the
viewer.
The more extreme ones result from nearly solid
"umbrata" fall overlays, using the term Linda Mann has introduced. The
opposite extreme of "umbrata" are the butterfly wing veinings covering the
fall. The trait comes from *Iris variegata.* I suspect all
expressions of the markings you show are variations of the umbrata
pattern.
Most umbratas are bitone, but this one seems to
have such intense coloration in the standards it comes off as a self.
The amoena from Meek in a subsequent post in response to yours has both the
Progenitor "I-sub-s* inhibitor *and* the umbrata, as do many of the very
dark bitones and bicolors.
Neil Mogensen z 7 western NC
mountains.
